Quality of life is assessed from a diverse perspective, including psychology, medicine, economics, environmental science and sociology. The development brings not only material prosperity but also a better overall quality of life. In Southern Thailand, the development has lead to a series of crisis which gives such a bad impact to the quality of life of community in Southern Thailand. The purpose of the study is to identify the problem from the social perspective experienced by the people in Southern Thailand and its impact on quality of life. Based on previous study, the quantitative method is used to analyze data by using descriptive statistics. The results of this study will examine the relationship between the social conflict occur and the effect on quality of life. In addition, the social intervention needed to overcome the problems are suggested in order to increase the quality of life of the people in southern Thailand. Moreover, the previous study also showed some of the indicator used to measure the quality of life using by the researcher in order to know the factor that effect the individual quality of life. As a conclusion, the social problem that occur have negatively impacted the quality of life. In order to increase the quality of life, the interventions need to be done to solve the conflict that occur among community in Southern Thailand.
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To Cite this Article: Zainal, N. S., Kamarudin, M. K. A., Wahab, N. A., Bati, S. N. A. M., Potikengrith, T., & Saad, M. H. M. (2019). Impact of Social Problem on Quality of Life and Intervention Needed Towards a Local Community in Southern Thailand. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(12), 25–36.
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